​Can I sue Kaiser Permanente? Is this malpractice? Their doctors, and I use the title very loosely, as it sure wasn’t earned by these people, left me so much worse off than the day I got my KP insurance. ANDREA BELKO, PCP: I went in for my annual physical, to discuss my GERD becoming […]

I’m still waiting for the results of my endoscopy. All the discharge paperwork says, other than that they took biopsies, is that they found gastritis. I would normally lock this post, due to the personal information, but I feel that the warning about Kaiser is worth leaving it public. I was supposed to go see […]

I go for an endoscopy later this morning. They had better find something. Anything. I do not want to hear, “Everything looks just fine.” Everything is not “just fine!” It is not normal to start coughing in my sleep, which wakes me up, because the last cough was coupled with vomit. It is not normal […]

To me, and my messed up brain, this makes a lot of sense… …and this is the mental image I cannot shake. I had such a huge crush on Walter Koenig when I was growing up. Well, I still do. MDD has hit the Koenig family quite hard.

A new doctor, who I saw a few weeks ago, thinks some of the stuff I’ve been dealing with might stem from some form of sleep apnea. This past Monday night, I wore this lovely gizmo overnight. I have never considered sleep apnea. I don’t snore, I’m a side-sleeper and, to my knowledge, I’ve never […]